Bloomberg
China's Xi Turns to Construction Spending as Lockdowns Hit Economy
Chinese officials are ramping up policy support for the economy that's been hammered by a widening series of Covid-related lockdowns. The government now plans to step up infrastructure construction. Stephen Engle reports on "Bloomberg...
Bloomberg
Using Satellites to Predict the Future
Apr.16 -- Planet CEO Will Marshall explains how his company has built and deployed the largest fleet of Earth observation satellites and how they use the images captured to record real world events everyday. The company is one of the...
Bloomberg
Stopping Forest Fires from Space
Nov.04 -- A start-up in San Francisco, Salo Sciences, has developed a modern approach to preventing forest fires. Using a combination of satellite imagery, computer vision, and A.I. algorithms, the company is creating measurements of...
Curated Video
USA: SPY SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHS NOW USED BY PRIVATE SECTOR
English/Nat
With the end of the Cold War, technology that was once top secret is now finding its way into commercial use.
For decades, the superpowers spied on each other using high-powered satellite reconnaissance.
Now these...
Bloomberg
What Earth Looks Like When Everything Stops
Apr.30 -- As life on Earth slowed to a crawl, hundreds of satellites orbiting overhead captured day-by-day images of this unprecedented moment in history. Analysts have been poring over the pictures to better understand the coronavirus...
Bloomberg
How AI Is Fighting Wildfires Faster Than Ever
Neal Oman, senior technical advisor of data science at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, talks about how firefighters are using satellite imaging, AI and machine learning to predict the path of wildfires and how the same...
Bloomberg
Learning From Planet's Shoe-Boxed Sized Satellites
Jun.30 -- Will Marshall, Planet's co-founder and chief executive officer, explains what can be learned from the company's satellite imagery. He speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology."
Curated Video
UN NUCLEAR CHIEF ANNOUNCES MEETING WITH IRANIAN OFFICIALS
The UN nuclear agency chief on Monday announced new talks with Iran and urged it to sign a deal that would relaunch his long-stalled probe into suspicions that Tehran worked secretly on atomic arms.
International Atomic Energy Agency...
Curated Video
WRAP UN official, India aid, Australia FM, US relatives ADDS UN reax
Bangkok, Thailand - 7 May 2008
1. Various set-ups of Richard Horsey, spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs as he walks though lobby of UN building
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Horsey,...
Curated Video
Amnesty: Sudan used chemical weapons in Darfur
Amnesty International released a report on Thursday on the alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians, including very young children, by Sudanese government forces in one of the most remote regions of Darfur.Using satellite...
Curated Video
Nuclear agency chief Amano on North Korea crisis
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Yukiya Amano said on Tuesday the latest nuclear test by North Korea poses "a global threat" and described it as "a very grave threat that reached a new dimension."
Amano...
Curated Video
Records Show Slow Response To Report Of California Oil Spill
The Coast Guard received a report of oil sheen in the water 12 hours before a pipeline company reported the leak.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Amnesty releases footage indicating mass graves in Burundi
CLEAN : Amnesty releases footage indicating mass graves in Burundi
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Cryosphere: Antarctica
Learn about the different features of snow and ice in Antarctica using satellite imagery in this video segment adapted from NASA. Includes background reading material and discussion questions. [2:37]